Kyler back in the game. Being thin at DB, we cannot spare another injury.

I feel that Woolen or Wright will be on the team before the end of the week.

Not one mention of penalty for helmet to helmet. Burden knocked out.

Santos flubs a kickoff

Taylor has a punt partially blocked

Our kick returner nearly fumbles

Swift close to fumbling

Burden fumbles

Caleb throws 4 interceptions

and,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

We WIN!!!

Go figure.

This wasn’t pretty…that defense is strong and the Bucs are physical and they found a way. Bears can learn a lot from today and it will help them in long run - better to learn after a win.

To Caleb’s credit when it mattered most he got them down the field for the game winning field goal.

Defense was strong - dline nice work - JJ with a huge pick six and a good game. Hopefully he can build on this. Busch was a monster!!!

Find a way!!!

44 minutes ago, ASHKUM BEAR said:

Not one mention of penalty for helmet to helmet. Burden knocked out.

I didn't realize until later that it was helmet to helmet because I was so mad at the turnover. That's two game changing calls by the officials in this game that went against the Bears. The awful holding penalty on Zavion Thomas' kickoff return took 7 points off the board, and that Burden play gave the Bucs 7 points that they shouldn't have gotten. 14 point swing. Still waiting for the first game where the officials screw over our opponents instead of the Bears. It never happens.

3 minutes ago, Bears4Ever_34 said:

I didn't realize until later that it was helmet to helmet because I was so mad at the turnover. That's two game changing calls by the officials in this game that went against the Bears. The awful holding penalty on Zavion Thomas' kickoff return took 7 points off the board, and that Burden play gave the Bucs 7 points that they shouldn't have gotten. 14 point swing. Still waiting for the first game where the officials screw over our opponents instead of the Bears. It never happens.

What pissed me off is Collinsworth, saying how huge of a play it was for the Bucs. No mention the WR was knocked out cold. No concern for the Bears player. F him. I dont think it was intentional head hit, but when a player drops it should be reviewed. Glad the Bears won and Burden walked on his own to the sideline.

The curse of expectations. Last year I was happy when we won the close games like that. We were winning anyway we could win.

This year...that game sucked. Yet we have a defense that actually played very well, maybe better than the Bucs defense. How many years has it been since our defense (and offense) were good enough to overcome a 5 turnover game? How many teams in the NFL can do that?

I haven't looked into it enough, but there's been a lot of talk recently about how bad teams have been coming off their 3rd primetime game in a row. I think the Bears are one of a few teams already this year that have played 3 in a row—the Seahawks being one of them, who the Bears just beat, and there was at least another team I'm forgetting, maybe KC the week before who lost to SEA? If the NFL could be done with that schedule gimmick, that would be great. Don't need to go through that ever again.

1 hour ago, Bears4Ever_34 said:

I didn't realize until later that it was helmet to helmet because I was so mad at the turnover. That's two game changing calls by the officials in this game that went against the Bears. The awful holding penalty on Zavion Thomas' kickoff return took 7 points off the board, and that Burden play gave the Bucs 7 points that they shouldn't have gotten. 14 point swing. Still waiting for the first game where the officials screw over our opponents instead of the Bears. It never happens.

Both of those calls were bad. The hit on burden wasn’t intentional but I think it is a penalty and the Zavion playing coming back was an awful call too. But they found a way!!!

Swift is pretty banged up so I think our RB room is getting a much needed rest and reinforcement coming is big!

22 minutes ago, Bears4Ever_34 said:

I haven't looked into it enough, but there's been a lot of talk recently about how bad teams have been coming off their 3rd primetime game in a row. I think the Bears are one of a few teams already this year that have played 3 in a row—the Seahawks being one of them, who the Bears just beat, and there was at least another team I'm forgetting, maybe KC the week before who lost to SEA? If the NFL could be done with that schedule gimmick, that would be great. Don't need to go through that ever again.

I think it is probably a lot on the players emotions and just the body clocks etc. Routines are what these guys do…3 in a row big games with the last two against two of the more physical defenses in NFL is a grind. Huge win though cause schedule is about to get even tougher.

What a bizarre game. Past Bears teams would've lost by double digits. One of the crazier stats of all of them, TB lost 4 pts off the Bears 5 turnovers. They only got one FG and threw a Pick-6 on Bears turnovers.

8 hours ago, DABEARSDABOMB said:

Both of those calls were bad. The hit on burden wasn’t intentional but I think it is a penalty and the Zavion playing coming back was an awful call too. But they found a way!!!

Swift is pretty banged up so I think our RB room is getting a much needed rest and reinforcement coming is big!

Agreed, the hit was not intentional. Since he was a runner, the hit was legal as Bain did not lead with the crown.

7 hours ago, DABEARSDABOMB said:

I think it is probably a lot on the players emotions and just the body clocks etc. Routines are what these guys do…3 in a row big games with the last two against two of the more physical defenses in NFL is a grind. Huge win though cause schedule is about to get even tougher.

Indeed on both accounts. Certainly a timely bye week coming up for the Bears. Both the Seahawks and the Bucs D's are legit. 3 straight primetime games is a lot.
We have some tough games upcoming. 2x Lions, Jaguars, Bills, Packers, Vikings. Granted the Packers and Vikings schedules both get tougher as well.

It was a very ugly and Bizaar game. I wasn't honestly sure what to expect in this game. Bucs came in barly even trying to pass the ball, I was a little surprised they came in with a more balanced play calling. The Bucs have been an oddball team this year. So I feel like just as us fans looked at this as an odd possibly unpredictable matchup I don't doubt game prep treneded that way too. You had to assume they wouldn't come out and just attempt a handful of passes. By the time the 4th quarter rolled around my thought was let's just find a way to survive this game with a win and go into the bye 7-2. After the first quarted It looked like the game could have turned into a laugher and it was trending that way till that boneheaded personal foul in the redzone. We had them on their heels, then it seemed like the game slipped into the twilight zone. Caleb throws a very uncharacteristic pick. D steps up, only for Caleb to throw a second pick. From there the offense only managed to score 6 points off two FG's. Sandwiched in JJ's pick six. Which when that happened my first thoght was "I think that's the first positive thing JJ's done on the field this year." Special teams was anything but special. Punt blocked, Kalif nearly muffing one. Only special teams props go to Santos for making his two kicks including the game winner.

Random thoughts:

• Williams - The picks, good God that was the worst he's looked. The worst ones in my opinion were the goal line one, and the two that he was bailing out and should have just chucked them into the stands. Credit to the Bucs defenders. Most of those picks were a hell of a play. Especially the one where the DB got his hands under the ball that got reversed from INC. For Caleb, you cannot put balls like that in the field of play. The Bucs are a team that thrives off the takaways. Given the body of work this feels like a blip where he just lost his mojo and he clearly seemed to be pressing or overthinking. When it matter though he did get them in FG range for winning kick. I think he learns from this and moves on. As a player you just have to aknowlege as he did in the post game that it was a rough game and he needs to just put it behind him and learn from it.

• O-line had a rough night. Williams seemed to be under constant pressure and the run blocking wasn't good either. Again that is a very stout D that the Bucs have.

• Defense kept us in this thing and are the reason we walked out with a win. I was expecting more pressure on Mayfield, but I also feel like our guys got held A LOT.

• Oficiating.... what can I say, just what we've come to expect.

• Last year this game and the outcome would have felt like another day at the office for this team. This year it feels out of character in so many ways. That shows how much the Bears have grown from last year to this year. We hung in and found a way to get the win. Use the bye week to get healthy, and mentally reset and prepare for the stretch run. There is a lot of football left to play. Lets's finish strong.